Sentence examples for secondary quality in from inspiring English sources

The important aspect of the distinction for the present discussion is that on Locke's view we ought always to explain a secondary quality in terms of a primary quality by which it produces the relevant sensation in us.

This was especially true for what came to be known as the secondary qualities (in the terminology of Robert Boyle and John Locke).

Secondary qualities in particular, such as colors and sounds, but also ideas of macrolevel primary qualities, including visual sensations of shapes and sizes, and tertiary qualities were to be reduced to the primary qualities of corpuscles, interacting with one another and/or with perceptual systems.

Another reason that Reid cannot draw the distinction between primary and secondary qualities in the way that Locke did is that he denies that conceptions of objects which we have following sensory experiences are to be analyzed as perceptions of ideas.

The psychological factors that guide our judgments of unity simply do not have the sort of ontological significance that should be guiding our construction of a good mereological theory, short of thinking that composition itself is merely a secondary quality (as in Kriegel 2008).

For both primary and secondary qualities are in the mind in such a way as to be in the thing and are in the thing in such a way as to be in the mind.

He answered as if Collins was talking about the smell of the rose and claims that this secondary quality properly belongs in his second class of properties.

Preliminary versions that were derived only from forward translations are of secondary quality and available in Finnish, Flemish, and Russian.

Significant improvements in secondary quality of life measures were also observed in the NC group as compared to PT.

Cavendish rejects the view that so-called secondary qualities exist only "in ourselves" (Cavendish 1668a, 147).

A secondary quality is one that (in some manner) crucially depends on our subjective awareness.